What are you listening 2 now?

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Jolene by Hildegard from Bingen/Blingen:

https://youtu.be/ugqQlB5fpuc

*Hildegard von Blingin' is very talented--lovely voice!  I ran across this song which was written for Game of Thrones:  Jenny of Oldstones..gorgeous and haunting me thinks. 

*I did also appreciate her Medieval adaptation of Dolly's original version (lyrics too).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-FjAISGyWQ

PD

[Madiel]

Most of this Sibelius album.



The final piano quartet (for 2 violins, cello and piano) is particularly interesting as it originally had an opus number, written the year before Kullervo and the original version of En saga. Definitely has the flavour of other works from the early maturity - I found myself weirdly thinking of the Lemminkainen Suite.

[Iota]

Really sorry to hear of Haitink's passing, whose humility and music-making I've appreciated for over forty years since I bought my first Mahler Symphony LP's on Philips with him.

Mahler

I know that as far as Mahler is concerned, Haitink liked the songs of "Des Knaben Wunderhorn" the most. Fortunately, we have a nice recording here that shows the orchestra and the acoustics of the hall in all their glory.
It seems appropriate, therefore, to listen to these songs that I also love very much.

That's interesting to hear, will try and join you in that recording later. RIP Maestro Haitink

[mahler10th]

It is awful to hear that Haitink has died.  After I finish this, I'll play his Strauss Alpine Symphony.  Really sad.  What a fine legacy he has left.
Meanwhile, I just read here that he had passed over, and I was listening to this:



Lyra Angelica amazing on this recording.
Haitink next...

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Stravinsky: Petrushka. Haitink/London PO.

[Papy Oli]

Bach - Cantatas BWV 5 & BWV 56 (Gardiner SDG , Vol.10)

[Traverso]

Shostakovich

Symphony No.2 "oktober"
Chor und Sympphonieorchester des Bayerichen Rundfunks

Symphony No.12 "The Year 1917"
Sympphonieorchester des Bayerichen Rundfunks

Yesterday I really enjoyed the first CD from this set, especially Symphony No.15 with its references to Wagner was very special. I had also listened to the adagio in the performance with Ashkenazy but there the references to Wagner were less noticeable.
So a very good start for this set.

[Mirror Image]

NP:

Bruckner
Symphony No. 3 in D minor, WAB 103
Bavarian RSO
Jochum

[vandermolen]

It is awful to hear that Haitink has died.  After I finish this, I'll play his Strauss Alpine Symphony.  Really sad.  What a fine legacy he has left.
Meanwhile, I just read here that he had passed over, and I was listening to this:



Lyra Angelica amazing on this recording.
Haitink next...

That's one of the great Alwyn discs!

[vandermolen]

Certainly, Jeffrey. Both recordings are splendid.

I think that I have you (and Kyle) to thank for alerting me to the quality of the PQ Cesar. 

[listener]

A French connection today - Friday - VIERNE's Day with his Messe basse nop. 36
and WIDOR: Organ Symphony 9 "Gothique" op. 70
Marie Andrée Morisset-Balier at the Cavaillé-Coll organ at Rouen
and "Parisian Ballets"
Henri SAUGET: Les forains, La Nuit, and La cigale et la fourmi
Joseph Guy ROPARTZ: Sérénade    LALO: Deux Aubades   MILHAUD: Trois Rag-Caprices
CBC Vancouver O.,   Daniel Swift, cond.

[classicalgeek]

Yes, Arnold had a distorted sense of reality and mental problems that stamped on many of his works. The Symphony No. 7 is especially disturbing, but quite witty and without losing his "sense of humor". One of my favorite English composers, in a top 25.

I'll have to listen to his Seventh again - it's been a while. I was reading up on Arnold's personal life, and it really says something that his music is as witty and humorous as it is, even if the tragedy and bleakness show through from time to time.

[Florestan]

[Traverso]

Bruckner

Symphony No.6

[Traverso]

Vaughan Williams


Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony'
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

[André]

The 4th. I might listen to the 5th later on. Haitink's WP performances (of whatever) are characterized by spaciousness and a rather soft-grained orchestral sound. While sonically beautiful, I must say I find these performances slightly undercharacterized.

[classicalgeek]

Richard Strauss
Don Juan
Ein Heldenleben
Till Eulenspigeles Lustige Streiche
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink
(on Spotify)



Heldenleben was a mixed bag - the ending was beautiful and touching, but I found the violin solo wore on me quicker than most recordings, and the battle scene was kind of tepid. No such problems with Don Juan and Till, though - very solid performances.

[SonicMan46]

Marais, Marin (1656-1728) - Fourth Book of Viol Pieces w/ Francois Joubert-Caillet and L'Achéron - 4 CD set, making 4 books released of four discs each - one more book left - listening off Spotify (to my den speakers, so good sound); unlikely to purchase these sets, i.e. rather expensive unless later packaged into a 'slim' box?  I've heard the other books and find that I'm enjoying these progressively more, likely related to style changes  over the course of these compositions and seems to be more enlivened involvement by the members of L'Achéron.  Dave

 

[vers la flamme]

Claude Debussy: Images pour orchestre. Bernard Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Brilliant music making. In memoriam Haitink.

[Mandryka]

This is quite early Savall, and he makes the viol meow and growl, it's full of vehement intensity - rage and urgency and presence. Nothing is standard, nothing is stable, everything he does takes you into surprising territory, you're never in any sort of comfort zone.